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(0)Gillian Armstrong
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In 14’s Good, 18’s Better, Gillian Armstrong re-introduces audiences to Diana, Josie and Kerry - three 18-year-old women living in suburban Adelaide. The film is a sequel to Smokes and Lollies, which Armstrong made four years earlier when the girls were 14. In this film, their current lives and views are counterpointed by flashbacks to their lives and expectations when they were 14. The footage is intercut, juxtaposing the pimply, rough-edged...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In an Australian twist on the popular English film series 7 UP, director Gillian Armstrong has followed the lives of three Australian women: Josie, Diana and Kerry, since 1976. The landmark series began with her subjects at age 14 (Smokes and Lollies, 1976), and continued with the girls aged 18 (Fourteens Good: Eighteens Better, 1980), 26 (Bingo, Bridesmaids & Braces, 1988) and 33 (Not Fourteen Again, 1996). Armstrongs latest and possibly final instalment...
Publisher
Umbrella Entertainment
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
Beth is a modern matriarch doing her best to raise her teenage daughter Annie whilst enjoying the best of an easy-going marriage to Frenchman JP. When younger sister Vicki returns from abroad and moves into the household she is instantly drawn to the ideal family structure and develops a longing for what is missing in her own life. As Beth takes a trip with her dad she leaves JP and sister Vicki behind, unaware of the smoldering love triangle that...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In 1977, Armstrong was commissioned by the South Australian Film Corporation to make a documentary about 14 year old Adelaide girls, Smokes and Lollies. It was her first paid job as director. “I think documentary filmmaking is very, very hard. It doesnt completely suit my personality.” The film explored issues surrounding what it meant to be a teenager and asked questions about sex, family, work and school. Armstrong then developed her own interest...
5) Little women
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Story about the March family of four daughters and a strong mother who, because her husband is away serving in the Army during the Civil War, must raise her "little women" on her own. The daughters include: spirited Jo who longs for a career as a writer; beautiful and conservative older sister Meg; fragile Beth; and the romantic Amy. Through the years, as they become women, the sisters share their most cherished and painful moments of self-discovery...